Anyone who's interested in delving into two-step -- pat dismissals like "it's the hip-house of the 90s" aside -- should check out the excellent sites www.hyperdub.com, for interviews and criticism, and www.dubplate.net for recent and upcoming tracks. Both sites feature underground styles of two-step that are worlds away from the commercialized crap that's given the genre such a bad name for so many. Try Horsepower Productions or any of the Tempa records, which apply a dark, dubby aesthetic that's not so far off from plenty of dubby, German minimal techno; or try Zinc (aka Jammin, Runnin) for a tougher breakbeat aesthetic that'll appeal to d'n'b heads.
philip sherburne
contributing editor, neumu
https://www.neumu.net/needledrops